Installation guide

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Bull S.A.May 25th, 1999
3. Bulldisk, Bulldisk_diag – (Disks)
These packages provide software for Bull disks Differential and Single Ended Fast/Wide,
and Ultra/Wide. This software allows to use the functions of the AIX Diagnostics Subsystem
for Bull disks:
• Disk diagnostics
• From the Tasks and Service Aids diagnostics functions, access to format and certify
commands, and to disk error log report analysis.
Restrictions and Limitations
• For all STxxx disks (in the upper table), the diag command format is aborted after some
time; run again the same command to format disk properly.
• The mkvg command, after formatting STxxx disks, gives an error like: bad pvid....
Use the chdev command to give a new pvid:
# chdev –l hdiskX –a pv=yes
and perform the mkvg command again.
• If you have already connected disks recognized as “Other SCSI Disk Drives”,
reboot the system after installing the Bulldisk package.
• The lsdev command prints a 4.3 GB capacity for disk drives model ST3437X. This
value is a rounded value; the capacity usable under AIX is given by the lspv command.